Author: Penson Kareem
Kit Connor, Diana Silvers To Star In Janicza Bravo’s ‘Prǝppy’
Kit Connor and Diana Silvers have signed on to star in Prǝppy, a true-crime drama film for STX Entertainment and Aggregate Films, directed by Janicza Bravo. Deadline exclusively broke the news. Based on an original screenplay by David Levine and Rose Lichter-Marck, per Deadline, the film “explores the summer of 1986 leading to the murder of…
Why Was Alex Cooper’s ‘Love Overboard’ Canceled?
Alex Cooper’s dating reality series Love Overboard has been canceled at Hulu after just one season. According to Page Six, insiders said the show “wasn’t finding its audience,” prompting Disney to cancel it after its nine-episode run. The Hollywood Reporter added that the series never drew the kind of audience Hulu’s other unscripted shows have, pointing to The Secret Lives of…
Netflix Drops ‘Blood Legacy’ Season 2 Trailer
Netflix has released the trailer for Season 2 of Blood Legacy, the South African drama series centered on the Ndlovu family’s fight for control of Spear Industries. Per the official description, the season “Picks up two years after Khanyi (Xolile Tshabalala) was wrongfully implicated in her father’s death, as she discovers that her arrest was actually…
Issa Rae, Tracy Oliver’s ‘Open’ Marriage Drama At Paramount Television Studios Has 7 Offers
Tracy Oliver and Issa Rae have co-created Open, an hour-long drama series that has drawn seven offers after recently being shopped to buyers. Deadline broke the news of the project, which is produced by Paramount Television Studios under Rae’s first-look deal there. What is ‘Open’ about? Per Deadline, in Open, “when a married couple who did everything…
‘Lanterns’ Cast, Writer Discuss Explorting John Stewart’s Origins in Episode 3
Lanterns stars J. Alphonse Nicholson and Jasmine Cephas Jones, as well as writer and co-executive producer Vanessa Baden Kelly, gathered for an advance tastemakers screening and panel ahead of Episode 3, moderated by Trey Mangum, managing editor of Blavity and the owner/founder of BLKCinema.com, to discuss the episode centered on John Stewart’s origins. What is ‘Lanterns’…
Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson’s ‘Brothers’ Gets First Trailer
Apple TV has released the trailer for Brothers, the comedy series starring and executive produced by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, which had first look images released earlier this summer. Alongside McConaughey and Harrelson, the ensemble cast includes Natalie Martinez, Brittany Ishibashi, Nolan Almeida, Ella Grace Helton, Noah Carganilla, Highdee Kuan, Oona Yaffe and Holland Taylor.…